On disruption, disorientation, and development in clinical supervision: a transformative learning perspective. Issue 2 (3rd July 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Watkins, C. Edward; Davis, Elizabeth C.; Callahan, Jennifer L.
• Is Part Of: Clinical supervisor. Volume 37:Issue 2(2018)
• Page Start: 257
• Page End: 277
• Publication Date: 2018-07-03
• Subjects: Transformative learning -- therapist identity -- supervisee development -- Practice Self -- supervision; Mental health personnel -- Supervision of -- Periodicals; Psychotherapists -- Supervision of -- Periodicals; Mental health personnel -- Training of -- Periodicals; Psychotherapists -- Training of -- Periodicals; 616.8900683
• DOI: 10.1080/07325223.2017.1418694
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0732-5223

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Might Practice Self (or therapist identity) formation in clinical supervision be profitably conceptualized as a transformative learning process? In this article, drawing on Mezirow's (2000, 2003, 2006, 2012) transformative learning theory, we consider that question. We give particular focus to Mezirow's ten-phase process of transformation, whereby identity becomes constructed, reconstructed, or reworked and propose that the process of transformation serves as a useful metaphor for thinking about the vagaries and vicissitudes of the therapist's own Practice Self development. We then apply those ten phases to the therapist's journey of becoming, providing a developmentally descriptive, process-driven narrative of Practice Self formation.